Week 3 – Racial Oppression Assignment
Choose one time period and discuss the history of racial/ethnic oppression.
- Slave trade in Virginia (1600s)
- Slavery in the United States south (1800s)
- Chinese railroad workers in US (1868-1924)
- Trail of tears (1831-1850) Native Americans
- Small Pox Epidemic Native Americans (1754-1763)
- Anti-Italian Immigration (1840-1924)
- Anti-Jewish Immigration (1860 – 1930)
- Social Darwinism (1880-1944)
- Anti-German Immigration (1680-1760)
- 1985 Philadelphia Police Bombing (1985)
- Anti-Latino Immigration (1840-1936)
- One of your own choice (must be approved by professor)
Instructions
Answer the following questions in numerical format (#1-6). 2-3 pages. APA format. 12 Font Times New Roman only.
All work must be properly cited and unless otherwise noted; do not include pure opinion.
- Outline the basic history of the event(s). You can use a timeline or write it out.
- What justifications did the dominant culture use to promote the oppression of the Other?
- How was science or religion (or both) used to justify the oppression?
- What attitudes, beliefs and values created the situation that led to the oppression of the Other?
- In what ways was race or ethnicity used to create the oppression?
- How did these oppressions influence modern American ideas on race and ethnicity?
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